TABLE 3.

Strategies Proposed by Participants to Achieve Tobacco Endgame in sub-Saharan Africa, by Policy Category

Policy CategoryProposed Strategies
Product-focused
  • Making tobacco less addictive

  • Regulating novel products (e-cigarettes and hookah)

User-focused
  • Instituting smoke-free generation policy

  • Increasing cessation support efforts: cessation services in health care facilities and toll-free national quit line

  • Exploring local remedies for treating nicotine addiction

  • Using sports to promote an end to tobacco use

Market/supply-focused
  • Licensing tobacco sellers

  • Increasing tobacco taxes

  • Controlling illicit trade

  • Finding alternative sources of income for tobacco farmers

Institutional structure-focused
  • Monitoring and regulating the tobacco industry

Legislation implementation-focused
  • Implementing the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control

  • Signing and implementing the Protocol to Eliminate Illicit Trade in Tobacco Products